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Shasta Dam gravel conveyor photograph album.
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Title:
Shasta Dam gravel conveyor photograph albumAbstract:
Album photographs depict various views of process by which gravel is gathered, milled and conveyed from Columbia Construction
Company gravel plant in Redding, Calif. to construction site of Shasta Dam. Album also includes a map and flow sheet drawing
of the conveyor system.
Date:
1940 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caColumbia Construction Company -- Photographs
Dams -- California -- Design and construction -- Photographs
Conveyor belts -- California -- Photographs
Construction industry -- California -- Photographs
Shasta Dam (Calif.) -- Photographs
Note:
Photographer unknown.
Title and date supplied by cataloger.
In typescript on first leaf of album: Shasta Gravel Plant. June 15, 1940.
UNPROCESSED. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be submitted to The Bancroft Library via the
Notice of Interest in Unprocessed Collections form.
The Columbia Construction Company built a 9.6-mile conveyor belt system to transport gravel from its plant in Redding, Calif.,
to the construction site of Shasta Dam. According to map in album, this conveyor belt was the longest such system in the world.
Type:
graphicPhotograph albums.
Physical Description:
photoprint
1 album (16 photographic prints) : b&w ; 30 x 24 cm
Language:
English
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Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
UNPROCESSED. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be submitted to The Bancroft Library via the
Notice of Interest in Unprocessed Collections form.